AMD Zen 4 Ryzen 9 7950X and Ryzen 5 7600X Review: Retaking The High-End
by Ryan Smith & Gavin Bonshor on September 26, 2022 9:00 AM ESTGaming Performance: 720p and Lower
All of our game testing results, including other resolutions, can be found in our benchmark database: www.anandtech.com/bench. All gaming tests here were run using a variation of 720p resolutions and at minimum settings.
We are using DDR5 memory on the Ryzen 9 7950X and Ryzen 5 7600X, as well as Intel's 12th Gen (Alder Lake) processors at the following settings:
- DDR5-5200 CL44 - Ryzen 7000
- DDR5-4800 (B) CL40 - Intel 12th Gen
All other CPUs such as Ryzen 5000 and 3000 were tested at the relevant JEDEC settings as per the processor's individual memory support with DDR4.
Civilization VI
World of Tanks
Borderlands 3
Far Cry 5
Grand Theft Auto V
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Red Dead Redemption 2
Strange Brigade (DirectX 12)
Strange Brigade (Vulcan)
When it comes to gaming at lower resolutions such as 720p and 480p, there are more frames for the processor to, well, process, so this is where the CPU can show its limitations more so as opposed to GPU. In Civilization VI at 480p, we see the Ryzen 7950X and 7600X decimate the competition by around 15%.
What's interesting is that in some of our titles including Strange Brigade and Grand Theft Auto V, at least when using lower resolutions, the Ryzen 5 actually out performs its more expensive Ryzen 9 counterpart.
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Yirath - Tuesday, October 11, 2022 - link
Well I appreciate the info on the new chip. I am a bit disappointed reading the comments that the chip falls short of it's expectations. As a fan of AMD I'll still probably go with this on my next build. Replyfybyfyby - Tuesday, October 18, 2022 - link
And what shortcomings do you mean? Im fresh user of 7950x and I wouldnt go back to 5900x. 7950X is much more efficient and powerful. Of course now its also investment into new platform. Its not as cheap. And for many people it doesnt make sense. Its absolutely understandable. ReplyVorl - Thursday, October 20, 2022 - link
If this is a rewview of the 7950 and the 7600 why isn't the 7600 in the SPEC tests? Replynamcost - Friday, October 21, 2022 - link
1:1:1 would mean 3000:3000:3000.... The infinity clock doesnt run 3000. So this whole article is factually wrong except the part where you stated that infinity clock was running 2000. That would mean 2000:3000:3000 which is not 1:1:1 at all.... Replynpoc - Wednesday, October 26, 2022 - link
Why doesn't anyone report idle power consumption anymore. I don't care how much power my computer uses when it's running full out because that only happens 1% of the time. 99% of the time my system sits idle waiting to do things. Please report idle power consumption both at the 12v CPU rail, and at the whole system level *(with similarly specced machines, i.e. same nvme, same ram, same GPU, same PSU, similarly specced motherboard). I don't game, but I do have a server that needs upgrading. I honestly care most about how much power this upgrade will cost or save me over my existing i7-4771 (yes that's a thing). Reply